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And yet, PvE remains one of the most popular activities in Eve. It’s universally acknowledged that Eve Online’s PvE content is absolutely terribleįrom missions to anomaly ratting to even “end-game” incursions, you’d be hard pressed to find content that you can truly call engaging or fun. He goes behind the veil seeking answers to why we subject ourselves to hours upon hours of PvE as well as trying to suss out what grasp does ISK have on both our time spent, as well as our experience gathered, within the context of their game. In fact, according to the Foundation for Biomedical Research, 95 percent of all lab animals are mice and rats.Ī rat’s front teeth grow 4.5 to 5.5 in (11 to 14 cm) each year, according to Discover Magazine.What follows is a submission from one of our readers and frequent nullsec frontliner, Ahri Ai. Brown rats are used in laboratories for research. They have also spread of diseases among humans, including bubonic plague. Rattus simalurensis (Simalur Archipelago rat)īrown and house rats have made a number of mammal, bird and reptile species extinct, especially on oceanic islands, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.Rattus montanus (Sri Lankan mountain rat).Rattus lugens (Mentawai Archipelago rat).Rattus hainaldi (Hainald’s Flores Island rat).Rattus xanthurus (Northeastern Xanthurus rat).

Rattus palmarum (Zelebor’s Nicobar rat).

Rattus hoogerwerfi (Hoogerwerf’s Sumatran rat).

Rattus feliceus (Spiny Seram Island rat).

Rattus elaphinus (Sula Archipelago rat).

They are considered threatened with extinction due to loss of habitat and decreasing populations. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 16 rat species on its Red List of Threatened Species.

Rattus xanthurus - Northeastern Xanthurus rat, or Sulawesi white-tailed rat.

Rattus rattus - House rat, or black rat.

Rattus osgoodi - Osgood's Vietnamese rat.

Rattus norvegicus - Norway rat, or brown rat.

Rattus lutreolus - Australian swamp rat.

Rattus hoffmanni - Hoffmann’s Sulawesi rat.

Here is the taxonomy of rats according to ITIS: Most house rats - 91 to 97 percent - die within their first year of life, according to the University of Michigan. Rats typically live around two or three years. By the age of three months, the brown rat is ready to reproduce. 28 ounces) are born, according to the American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association. Tropical rats tend to only have one to six babies at once.Īfter a gestation period of 21 to 26 days, babies that weigh only around 6 to 8 grams (.21 to. Brown rats can have up to 22 young at once, though eight or nine is more the average. Female rats can mate around 500 times in a six-hour period and brown rats can produce up to 2,000 offspring in a year, according to Discover Magazine. Rats, generally, are baby-making machines.

These nests are usually built in crevices, in rotting trees or in buildings. Offspringīefore their offspring are born, rats build nests from any material that can be foraged from the area, including branches, grass, trash and paper.

Other rats, such as the Sulawesi white-tailed rat and Hoffman’s rat, prefer vegetarian fair such as seed and fruits, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Rats have also been known to eat grain or kill insects, water creatures such as snails, fish and mussels, small birds, mammals and reptiles for food. They will scavenge through trash or eat any food that is left unprotected. House and brown rats usually use humans for their primary food source. Rats are omnivores, but many prefer meat when they can get it. Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus), (Image credit: CDC) Diet